Has your community or voluntary group been working to involve patients and the public in improving health care services? NHS England is launching a new community grant opportunity to showcase good practice around patient and citizen participation in healthcare. They want to share and enable others to learn from the excellent patient and public involvement…

The GSK IMPACT Awards have been running since 1997 and are designed to recognise charities that are doing excellent work to improve people’s health. They are funded by GlaxoSmithKline and managed in partnership with The King’s Fund. The awards are open to registered charities that are at least three years old, working in a health-related…

The Health Foundation has announced that its Innovation for Improvement programme is open to applications. The deadline for applications is midday Tuesday 4 August 2015. The programme is looking for projects that aim to improve health care delivery and/or the way people manage their own health care through the redesign of processes, practices and services.…

The Department of Health, Public Health England, NHS England and representatives of the VCSE sector (voluntary, community and social enterprise sector) have been working together to review how government invests in the VCSE sector in health and care. From January to March 2015 they collected views from across the voluntary sector on how funding the…

The Health Foundation has over £3 million available for up to seven teams to take successful health care improvement interventions and deliver them at a larger scale. The Scaling Up Improvement Programme is looking for projects that aim to improve health care delivery and/or the way people manage their own health care. Projects need to…

The Department of Health have launched the 2015-16 Innovation, Excellence and Strategic Development Fund. The fund is open for applications for health and care projects starting in September 2015 or later. Voluntary sector organisations are invited to submit proposals that: test and develop innovative approaches to health and care actively share and disseminate excellent practice improve…

Then Health Foundation have funding of £1.5m available for up to 20 teams to test and develop innovative ideas and approaches to improving health care delivery in the UK. As part of their Innovating for Improvement programme they are looking for projects that aim to improve health care delivery and/or the way people manage their own…

NHS England has launched the Realising the Value Programme, a new initiative which will empower people and communities to take more control of their health. Through this initiative, NHS England will award a grant of up to £500,000 to a charity or not for profit organisation (or consortium) to identify evidence-based approaches to self-care. This…

The 2015 GSK Impact Awards are open for applications. The awards are open to registered charities that are at least three years old, working in a health-related field in the UK, with a total annual income between £25,000 and £2 million. Winners of the awards will benefit from: Up to ten winners will receive £30,000…

Primary Care Commissioning are holding two workshop events in the autumn to support organisations delivering health and care services respond to tender opportunities. Wednesday 29 October 2014, Manchester Tuesday 11 November 2014, Birmingham The events will guide you through the process of writing a successful bid, from understanding what the commissioner is looking for to…